Chhattisgarh Police on Wednesday arrested an ex-Additional Collector from Ambikapur and brought him to Baikunthpur in Korea district for assisting the fraudulent purchase of land of a tribal woman.
Korea Deputy Superintendent of Police Dhirendra Patel said then Additional Collector Edmond Lakra was presented in a local court which sent him to judicial custody.
In September last year, complainant Shanti Bai told the Baikunthpur police that builder Mahangilal Agrawal (50) of Rampur village had illegally bought land of the tribal woman and sold it in 2014.
The police lodged a case under sections 294, 506, 420,467, 468, 471 and 4 37 of the IPC and Section 3 of Atrocities Act.
The police came to know that Agrawal had fraudulently bought the land of tribal woman Shanti Bai in Rampur village and registered it in the name of his driver Arvind Singh.
The now jailed former Additional Collector had allowed the registry of land of the tribal woman in the name of a non-tribal in violation of law.
Police arrested Agrawal on December 10 while the ex-Additional Collector was at large.